Ostmongolische orale LiteraturOral Tales of Mongol Bards
Dorǰi
Dorǰi (1923-?) was born in Küriye
Banner. He was a herdsman. Aged five, Dorǰi moved
with his family to Aru Qorčin. He taught to himself to play the fiddle (quγur) and
learned tales from Mongolian books, having another person read them for him. Only
later on did Dorǰi learn how to read books in
Mongolian. In 1959, Dorǰi moved to Sili-yin qota,
where he and the bard Öskübuyan (1911-1979) performed tales in the house of tales
(üliger-ün ger). Dorǰi based his oral performance
of the tale Baraγun Liyang ulus-un üliger “The Story of the Western Liang State”
on the Mongolian translation of the tale, inserting Mongolian traditional folk
poetry into the tale, and converting parts in prose into verse.
